If you ask a Malayali living out of Kerala what they miss the most about home, 9 out of 10 times you'll find them answering food. I, just like most malayalis love my food, and I can't help but be a sucker for movies that romanticize it.
I love the film when it does the food romaniticization('Chembavu' has my heart) and just as much when it does the romance, but I just wish the movie was more than just a…
So intensely clever and even more importantly, honest. Made me want to write something.
A heart wrenching exploration of the social structure of family in Kerala and it's relationship with familiar themes like prestige and honour.
Parvathy and Urvashi are incredible and so is Christo Tomy's painfully honest screenplay.
Messy screenplay. Funny at times and moving at some others.
Makane the song and Hashir, are positives but in the end the whole thing ends up feeling like relatability porn for low academic performers. It almost had something, peeking into some things that hadn't been shown on screen before about their lives, yet the end result is too simplistic.
